# antonioCoco/RemotePotato0

Windows Privilege Escalation from User to Domain Admin.

Repository: https://github.com/antonioCoco/RemotePotato0
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/remotepotato0
Language: C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-12-18T01:52:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2032, "days_push": 1355, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1469, forks 221 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:49.074506+00:00)

## What it is
RemotePotato0 is a Windows privilege escalation exploit that abuses the DCOM activation service to trigger NTLM authentication from privileged users and relay it cross-protocol (RPC to HTTP) to escalate from a generic user to Domain Admin. It also supports capturing NTLMv2 hashes of all users logged on to a target machine.

## Use cases
- escalate privileges from standard user to domain admin on windows
- relay ntlm authentication to ldap to escalate a user
- capture ntlmv2 hashes of logged-on users on a machine
- perform cross-session dcom activation attacks
- set up rpc to http cross-protocol relay for ntlmrelayx
- red team active directory privilege escalation testing

## When to choose
- you are on a pentest or red team engagement against an active directory environment
- a privileged user such as a domain admin is logged on the same target machine
- you need to steal ntlmv2 hashes from logged-on sessions
- you want a standalone windows executable for potato-style relay attacks

## When to avoid
- you are on patched windows server 2019+ where the main rpc to ldap exploit scenario is fixed
- you need a general-purpose privilege escalation enumeration tool rather than a specific exploit
- you lack any foothold or a privileged user session on the target machine
- you are not authorized to test the target environment

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, penetration-testing, networking
- domain: security, penetration-testing, windows
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: privilege-escalation, ntlm-relay, active-directory, exploit, red-team, hash-capture, dcom

## Member repositories
- antonioCoco/RemotePotato0 (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:49.074506+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:34:52.556943+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/antonioCoco/RemotePotato0 (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:49.074506+00:00, sha 4f1ff1892ac7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.